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SneakerNet in action
We are experimenting with the processing of large amounts of scientific data so we asked for a copy of the SDSS SkyServer data. Alex Szalay was very kind to send us a copy… Tony Hey opening the box with the hard disks of the SkyServer data. This is of course SneakerNet in action 🙂 This…
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I am certain this is going to be an interesting blog to watch
I’ve started interacting with Bora Beran, a post-doc researcher working for Catharine van Ingen, over the last few months and I love it. He’s very energetic, creative, and with great ideas. Have a look at his ontology-driven Hydroseek work (resulting thesis). He’s just started blogging about his work and prototypes. Definitely worth checking out. He…
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Phew… Can’t wait for the weekend
Just spent the entire night at the office. It’s the ThinkWeek paper deadline today and I’ve been working on three of them!!! But it seems that we’ll submit all of them on time, if nothing goes wrong. I am very excited about the ideas we are proposing. Well, I hope that other technical folks inside…
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Microsoft and Yahoo
Of course it’s all over the technology news. It’s huge. I do hope it happens. Not everyone agrees. While exchanging emails about this with a friend, I did the calculation… Microsoft has around 80,000 employees… The $44B offer in cash represents around $0.55M per employee :-)))
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Open access chemistry
I was heavily involved at the initial technical discussions and the interactions with the group of people involved in this excellent activity. However, this is entirely the result of Lee Dirk’s excellent effort! The OAI-ORE format is going to be used in this project. I am going to talk about the OAI-ORE document format in…
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"Mest up people"
Every now and then I check my blog’s referral logs. Today I came across a Google query that directed the interested party to one of my pages… they were looking for “mest up people”… I guess they were really looking for “messed up people”… still, through the power of Google‘s engine, they got a good…
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MSR Community
My blog is now syndicated and available through the MSR Community site. Cool resource, go check it out.
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Silverlight-based cycle stealing
Some time ago I had suggested to Dan Fay that it might be interesting to use Silverlight as an easily distributable and maintainable platform for cycle-stealing at large scale. We thought it’d be great to investigate, perhaps as an intern project, but, as it is the case these days, we just haven’t had the time…
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myExperiment announces announcements feature 🙂
I’m actively monitoring the work that is taking place by the myExperiment folks and I love it. They keep adding features and they have lots of innovative stuff coming down the pipeline. Can’t wait! Jits just posted the first announcement. There is a feed you can subscribe to or you can just check out the…
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The question is…
Is s/he on Facebook? “Mystery image of ‘life on Mars’”